What Chuck says. +1 on ImageDisk. I also tried OmniDisk which allows you to do just about anything with the formats, including a lot of wrong things. I found it much more difficult to use, but it taught me quite a few things. I made 3 videos on YouTube about it, mostly to remember what I did, this was all new to me: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb58SkNrwTjOFJJIZobCLzhzQ On the 3rd one I go through the process to recreate an HP LIF disk from an image using ImageDisk. Easy peasy. I have no merit on this, the author of ImageDisk gets all the credits for a great utility. Marc
On Sep 14, 2017, at 8:21 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Good grief! All this discussion--about what amounts to a straightforward task. Get a PC with a 1.2M 5.25" drive and some DD floppies. Make sure it boots to MS-DOS, not Windows. Grab a copy of Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk. (on the classiccmp server, if memory serves). Use it read and make images of your source disks. Then use it to write as many copy as you want from the images. ImageDisk does a "read ID" on each track to get the exact sector ordering and skew. Easy peasy--hardly worth more than one or two posts. (And yes, I've used it to copy RX50 floppies for a customer and they were very happy with the result. I think it was for an Air Force teaching setup using VAXen. One advantage was that I could tell them just to drop me an email if they needed more, as I had the images.) --Chuck
